GOOD MORNING and welcome to Morning Tech, your kayak in the rapids of EU tech politics and policy.

— WHAT’S HAPPENING

OETTINGER JAB AT NET NEUTRALITY FANS: Having already repeatedly compared net neutrality advocates with the Taliban, Digital Agenda Commissioner Günther Oettinger now claims these vocal proponents “want to let socialism in through the door of neutrality.” What does that mean? According to his cabinet, Oettinger meant he’s in favor of net neutrality “with one single exception: for services which are in the general interest such as medical services, hospitals and so on. These should have preferential treatment. To make his point that others do not want even this exception but want net neutrality for all, he used the word socialism.” Netzpolitik caught the original quote, and a German-language version of that statement: http://bit.ly/1SXYeuA

WHAT MEDICAL SERVICES? Setting aside Oettinger’s invocation of socialism, what Internet-based medical services does the German conservative see as requiring prioritization? “There is no exact definition of this yet, but everything that is helping to save lives will indeed be in it,” his cabinet told me. Some technical clarity on that would be welcome. A couple weeks ago, I spoke with Martin Peuker, the head of IT at Berlin super-hospital Charité, and he told me that the burgeoning field of tele-medicine (where doctors interact with patients remotely) needs better Internet security more urgently than it needs data prioritization. “Today with what we actually do in the field of tele-medicine, we have enough bandwidth and space in the public Internet,” Peuker told me.

MOBILE REVOLUTION: The rise of mobile devices is changing the Western European media landscape, and PwC has the figures to prove it. Alex Spence dives in for POLITICO: http://politi.co/1JoEmxX

US LOOKS EAST FOR HACKERS: US officials suspect that hackers in China stole the personal records of as many as four million people in one of the most far-reaching breaches of government computers, The Wall Street Journal reports. The FBI is probing a cyber break-in into Office of Personnel Management, which was detected in April. http://on.wsj.com/1M9n05H

FRANCE TO UBER: ARRETE! The French government said Thursday it plans to crack down on Uber. France will enforce a controversial transport law, passed last fall, that reins apps like Uber and Chauffeur-Privé that are challenging traditional taxis. The move could trigger a showdown between Paris and the EU. WSJ has more details: http://on.wsj.com/1M9nEAj

ORANGE ISRAEL STORM: After Orange CEO Stephane Richard sparked outrage by saying the French telecoms group wanted to pull out of Israel, the company said his statement was down to business rather than politics. Richard said Wednesday that Orange wanted to leave Israel but feared financial penalties. He noted that Orange’s Israeli involvement was a “sensitive issue” in the Arab countries where it operates. Israel demanded that the French government, which owns a stake in Orange, distance itself from the comments. On Thursday, Orange claimed that Richard had been misunderstood and this was actually an issue of brand licensing — Orange lends its name to Israeli operator Partner Communications rather than running its own network there. “In line with its brand policy, Orange does not want to keep its brand presence in countries where it is not an operator,” the company said. Haaretz reports: http://bit.ly/1SYuKwM

DON’T PANIC but we are all in the “blast radius” of a likely international cyber war, according to computer security guru Bruce Schneier. A highly regarded cryptographer who was a technical analyst for a lot of the Snowden stories, Schneier told The Register that cyber attacks would become part of many conflicts. He also pointed out that attributing the attacks would usually be hard: “You can be attacked and not be sure if it’s a nuclear-powered government or two guys in a basement.” http://bit.ly/1dOUa02

NSA HACKER HUNT: The New York Times has a fresh scoop based on the Snowden documents, showing that the Obama administration green-lit the NSA’s warrantless surveillance of people it suspects of hacking. That includes monitoring what flows through American Internet infrastructure. “Government officials defended the NSA’s monitoring of suspected hackers as necessary to shield Americans from the increasingly aggressive activities of foreign governments. But critics say it raises difficult trade-offs that should be subject to public debate… It is not clear what standards the agency is using to select targets. It can be hard to know for sure who is behind a particular intrusion — a foreign government or a criminal gang — and the NSA is supposed to focus on foreign intelligence, not law enforcement.” http://nyti.ms/1QtgA2E

SLOVENIA WANTS TO CENSOR HATE SPEECH: The Slovenian culture ministry recently proposed that editors of online publications should have to remove comments containing hate speech and publish their rules for doing so. However, the country’s Information Commissioner said Thursday that this would amount to forced censorship and flout the EU’s e-commerce directive. The regulator said it welcomed the government’s attempt to curb hate speech, but pointed out that many Slovenian media outlets already had policies in effect. http://bit.ly/1FxVha3

POLITICIANS’ TWEETS: Twitter has effectively killed a transparency project aimed at preserving tweets that US politicians made and then deleted. The Politwoops service, run by the Sunlight Foundation, worked by plugging into Twitter through the company’s application programming interface, but that access was suspended last month. Gawker got a statement from Twitter, confirming the connection will not be restored as Politwoops violated terms and conditions banning the preservation of deleted tweets. “Honoring the expectation of user privacy for all accounts is a priority for us, whether the user is anonymous or a member of Congress,” Twitter said. http://bit.ly/1dfoRuf

SOUNDCLOUD DEAL: Berlin-based music-streaming service SoundCloud has signed a deal with copyright licensing agency Merlin, front man for many independent music labels. The deal means labels such as Beggars Group and Warp Records will be able to start making money when their tunes are played via SoundCloud. The company still remains in negotiations with some of the big labels, including Sony and Universal, though it has a deal with Warner. The Guardian reports: http://bit.ly/1KGxGsh

PAYING FOR SOCIAL MEDIA: By now everyone knows the core dilemma of free Internet services: that they need to be paid for somehow, and that “somehow” generally involves tracking users for advertisers. Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci has written an eloquent piece for the New York Times in which she pleads with Mark Zuckerberg (and by extension other proprietors of privacy-busting, free web tools) to let her pay for their services in exchange for her no longer being the product. She pointed to Facebook’s very low revenue per user as motivation: “Internet sites should allow their users to be the customers. I would, as I bet many others would, happily pay more than 20 cents per month for a Facebook or a Google that did not track me, upgraded its encryption and treated me as a customer whose preferences and privacy matter.” http://nyti.ms/1QsYwFU

— WHAT’S COMING

SPACEX INTERNET: SpaceX, the upward-looking element of Tesla supremo Elon Musk’s empire, has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission to launch a network of Internet satellites. As with Google’s Project Loon and Facebook’s own nascent satellite efforts, the idea is to provide connectivity to areas back on Earth that currently lack it. Time reports: http://ti.me/1G9tNw2

EUROPEAN INNOVATION: This year’s Open Innovation 2.0 Conference is taking place from Sunday to Monday in Espoo, Finland. It’s organized by DG Connect and Intel Labs Europe, along with Aalto University, with speakers from BMW, Atos, the Apache Software Foundation and MIT. http://bit.ly/1IMxOWT